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Hydrogen isotope fractionation factors for N,N-dimethylbenzyl-ammonium ion and some related species: An unusually strong preference for deuterium over protium
Guo, Hong-Xun,Kresge, A. Jerry
, p. 295 - 298 (2007/10/03)
Deuterium fractionation factors were determined by the 1H and 13C NMR methods in aqueous solution for PhCH2NLMe2+ (φ = 1.47 ± 0.05), PhCH2OL (φ = 1.04 ± 0.06), PhCO2L (φ = 1.04 ± 0.08), and CH3CO2L (φ = 0.99 ± 0.02). The medium effect for transferring PhCH2NMe2 from H2O to D2O, Φ = 1.025 ± 0.003, was also determined by partitioning this substance between water and immiscible organic solvents, and a UV spectroscopic method was used to measure the solvent isotope effect on the acid ionization of PhCH2NLMe2+, (Qa)H/(Qa)D = 4.88 ± 0.16. This solvent isotope effect agrees well with the value predicted using the relevant fractionation factors, (Qa)H/(Qa)D = 4.38 ± 0.28. The unusually large value of φ for PhCH2NLMe2+ is attributed to stiffened bending vibrations of its N-L bond imposed by the tetrahedral structure of the ion and the bulk of its methyl groups.
Proton transfers among oxygen and nitrogen acids and bases in DMSO solution
Ritchie, Calvin D.,Lu, Shanzheng
, p. 7748 - 7756 (2007/10/02)
Rate constants for the proton-transfer reactions between conjugate acids and bases of several amines, phenols, carboxylic acids, and the solvated proton in DMSO-d6 at 20 °C have been determined by the use of NMR line-shape analysis. Equilibrium constants for the same reactions are obtained from the pKa's of the acids in dimethyl sulfoxide, some of which have been reported in earlier work and the rest obtained in the present work by use of Bordwell's indicator techniques. All of the reactions have rale constants considerably below expected diffusion-controlled limits for the proton transfers in the thermodynamically favorable direction, and several of the reactions, including the identity reactions of carboxylic acids, have kinetic deuterium isotope effects, kH/kD, between 0.8 and 1.3. For reactions of N,N-dimethylbenzylammonium ion with several phenoxides, carboxylates, and solvent, the rate constants for transfers in the unfavorable directions show a reasonable Bronsted correlation with β ≈ 1 and a reasonably constant reverse rate constant of ≈3 × 106 M-1 s-1. The data clearly indicate that the proton-transfer step is not rate-limiting in these reactions. Most likely, desolvation is involved in the rate-limiting steps, but the rate constants are not simple functions of acidities as might have been expected if hydrogen bonding of acid to solvent were the major factor involved in the solvation Other factors, particularly dispersion interactions of solvent with solutes, are discussed. We suggest that the formation of an acid-base complex with proper orientation to allow contact between the proton and the basic site is rate-determining and involves desolvation along with detailed steric interactions of the acid-base pair.
A systematic entropy relationship for the general-base catalysis of the deprotonation of a carbon acid. A quantitative probe of transition-state solvation
Bunting, John W.,Stefanidis, Dimitrios
, p. 779 - 786 (2007/10/02)
The general-base-catalyzed deprotonation of a carbon acid, the l-methyl-4-(phenylacetyl)pyridinium cation (pKa = 9.02 at 25 °C), has been investigated for 32 general-base catalysts (25 amines and seven phenoxide ions) in aqueous solution. Amines give a generally scattered Bronsted plot; ring-substituted benzylamines have ?= 0.52, and ring-substituted phenoxides have ?= 0.60, with the phenoxides being more reactive than amines of similar basicity. The temperature dependences of the general-base-catalyzed deprotonation of this carbon acid have been measured over the range 15-45 °C for 12 base catalysts (eight primary, secondary, and tertiary amines; 4-(dimethylamino)pyridine; two phenoxide ions; hydroxide ion). The entropies of activation for these deprotonations show a clean curvilinear dependence upon the entropies of protonation of these base species, with the hydroxide ion being the only significant deviant from this relationship. This observation quantitatively establishes the importance of solvation effects as the major source of deviations that are commonly observed in Bronsted relationships for general-base-catalyzed processes.
